He Sees Darkness But Smiles Like The Light Chapter 7, a naruto fanfic

He Sees Darkness, But Smiles Like The Light

By The Unwanted Angel and Beta'd by Carrie2sky

Warning: Rated M for this chapter for language

We do not own Naruto

CHAPTER 7

Orochimaru stroked his hand along Naruto's whiskered cheek, smiling as he used his nails to scratch the child, awaking Naruto suddenly.

"Owie!" Naruto cried, touching his cheek, feeling a light warm substance. When he sawthe blood on his hand he started to whimper. Someone had hurt him! But Kyuubi only hushed him and started to heal the scratch that Orochimaru gave him.

"Ah, I see that Demon has magnificent powers," Orochimaru said, smirking at the boy.

Naruto turned his head towards the sound of the voice. "Who's there?! Papa?!" He called out.

"I can't believe the Fourth's son would be so stupid to fall for that, you honestly think I was coming to give you to your father?" Orochimaru cracked up.

Naruto gasped, pointing at the snake (although he was slightly off) "You-you were the one who said he'd take me to my Papa! Let me go!" He gasped once he found out he was chained to some sort of rock. He began to panic, and started crying. Frightened,he didn't know what was going to happen next, this man sounded scary, he lied too!

"Please, let me go!" Naruto begged once more.

"I don't think so." Orochimaru leered.

"Papa!" Naruto hysterically yelled.

"Your Papa isn't here, nor is he coming. He told me himself," Orochimaru lied.

Naruto gasped, no it couldn't be true! His Papa loved him! His Papa promised to love him forever and ever!

"You've been bad, Naruto. He doesn't want you anymore," Orochimaru smiled evilly.

Kit! Don't listen to him! Kyuubi yelled in his head.

"You mean nothing to him, Naruto," Orochimaru continued to lie.

Naruto felt a few tears start to form, his eyes were irritated, in much need of the cream that he hated with a passion. Not to mention the lies were starting to confuse him, causing him to suffer from a headache.

"He's replaced you…"

"SHUT UP!"Naruto screamed, a sob escaping from his throat.

Kit! He's lying! I don't like your dad very much, but that jerk is lying! Your father loves you; he'd never let you suffer like this!

Naruto wanted to believe Kyuubi he really did, but what this man had told him started to sound more and more true. Naruto thought of all the times he was bad at the hospital, or when he, Sasuke and his friendsall ran away from school. And when he had Kyuubi make the fox mask. All of those things had disappointed his Papa.

"And another thing, if you father loved you, why isn't he here?" Orochimaru continued. "He's back in Konoha, having so much fun with his friends and his new son."

"N-new son?" Naruto sobbed.

"That's right, in fact he waved goodbye to you as I took you out of Konoha, and right as I left I saw a boy and a new woman walk right up to him. He loves them more than he ever loved you or that slut Kushina." Orochimaru walked closer to Naruto, circling him like a predator his prey.

Kyuubi respondedby taking over Naruto's body and mind. Red Chakra started forming around his small body and Naruto's once pale blue lifeless eyes, turned red. Although it was alarming Orochimaru, he kept calm, remembering the chains and tightened wrists

"SHUT UP, RIGHT NOW OROCHIMARU!" "Naruto" shouted."LEAVE THE CHILD ALONE!"

"Ah, Kyuubi No Kistune, The Fox Demon. We meet at last," Orochimaru smirked.

Minato gasped and huffed, taking a breather, but for only two seconds before he began tree hopping once more. He was alarmed when the Chakra signal he picked up went from faint to extreme in a matter of seconds.Naruto, have you summoned Kyuubi? Minato thought. I hope not. If so, we're doomed. Minato hopped on the ground, the Chakralevels were highest here, but as Minato looked around there was no one but him and a few other AMBU officers with him. He looked up, then down and then the realization hit him.

"N-Naruto!" He called out desperately. He performed a quick Jutsu, and aiming at the ground.

"Hokage-sama!Where are you going?" One ANBU member asked, obviously confused.

The ground soon became a large hole, but it wasn't enough! He knew they were deeper still in the Earth. Performing the same Jutsu, a light yellow ball was thrown once more into the ground.

Papa's coming, Naruto.

"SHUT UP! I SAID BE QUIET!" "Naruto" yelled, as Orochimaru just smiled. "THIS KID IS BLIND, AND HAS TO SUFFER ENOUGH! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?!"

"Oh, me? I want nothing. Except you." Orochimaru replied. "Well, to be specific, your Chakra."

"LIKE HELL YOU'RE GETTING IT!"

"You might not give it to me...but that dumb child will. If I bribe him," Orochimaru smirked. "Now that won't be too difficult, as you know, he controls you, he can come back into control of his own body whenever he wants."

"OH REALLY? WELL, I'LL COME BACK THEN YOU'LL REALLY BE SORRY!"

Kyuubi had spoken too soon, because Naruto's eyes started to go back to the pale blue. He let out a loud sob and Orochimaru took his plan into action. He needed Naruto to be vulnerable and weak, unable to even think of his father coming for him, so the extraction should be easier.

"Naruto...it's really the best for both of you. You get to see your worthless mother in hell, while your father lives on happilywith his new family. Everyone wins," helied again.

Naruto didn't care anymore. Those words, spoken so easily made his heart feel like broken glass. Orochimaru stepped out of the room, and slowly and painfully Naruto's Chakra started seeping out of his body into the tubes Orochimaru had placed inside of Naruto. Naruto let out a wail in pain. It hurt so badly,but he felt too exhausted to do anything but scream.

"Papa!" Naruto cried.

"And another thing, if your father loved you, why isn't he here?"

"He's not coming Naruto. He's with his new family."

"He hates you."

KIT! Kyuubi spoke.

Naruto didn't answer, but Kyuubi knew he was listening.

Kit, I know what that asshole is saying sounds horrible, but it's not true! As much as I hate your father for putting me in this cell, he loves you, he's coming, Kit!

"No...Papa hates me," Naruto sobbed. He found those words to be true. Every thing Orochimaru had said was true. Otherwise, his Papa would have come for him by now, surely. Naruto recalled all the times he threw a tantrum, or started an argument with his father. Or every time he disobeyed, lied and the one time he ran from where his Papa had told him to stay. He wouldn't blame his father for leaving him with this bad man. Naruto's heart broke, it was true, his Papa hated him.

With one final loud yell and the same Jutsu, Minato had managed to break into the ground deep enough to where he felt the Chakra senses. But he wasn't anywhere near Naruto.

"Dammit!" He cursed. "Naruto, where are you?"

He started to run, it was dark, but he didn't care. His baby was somewhere in this "secret lab" kidnapped, cold and scared. Minato hoped Naruto wasn't hurt, or having things happeningto him. Minato grit his teeth and ran faster at the thought of that sick snake-loving bastard touching his son. Hehoped he wasn't too late. He found a steel door; there were curses and seals in a specific order.

A trap. His first instinct had told him. But this is my child; I have to take the chance.

Minato hadn't really recognized the symbols, writing or the markings at all, he had guessed Orochimaru had created them (or stolen). While trying to figure out what to do next he heard a chuckle. He gasped, and turned. No one. Narrowing his eyes he started to continue on the door. Smiling when he figured out all of the secrets. Putting his jutsu into action he had managed to open the door.

"I did it!" He exclaimed, happily.

"Not quite," A hiss came from the room.

Minato turned and pulled out a kunai, throwing it, almost hittingthe snake, but he dodged it.

"Not bad, Fourth Hokage." There stood Orochimaru and next to him, smirking as well, Kabuto. Minato tried as hard as he could to not let his anger get the best of him, but...

"Where's my son?!" He demanded.

"Oh? The demon child, Naruto? Well, at the moment he's..." The walls began to move, and from behind the walls was a large cage, inside were hundreds of machines, tubes and Naruto! He was chained down on a flat rock, one large tube in his mouth, sucking out all of the red chakra from Kyuubi!

Minato growled with anger.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" He yelled.

"It's called extraction." The snake hissed. Minato's eyes widened. "Of course, Extraction takes while, but only a little of the Kyuubi's power is actually needed for myself, and once that is complete, I'll be able to do wonderful things," the snake smirked.

"I don't think so!" Minato yelled, throwing a few Kunai with Paper bombs attached to them. Orochimaru and Kabuto dodged them, but it left a lot of smoke and quite a largeexplosion. Orochimaru let out a harsh cough. Once the smoke cleared and much to his dismay, Naruto and the Fourth were gone!

"Kabuto! Find them!"

Minato had told his ANBU officers to stay behind when he had gone in search of Naruto and he was he ever glad they did. They had started on a trap to catch Orochimaru and Kabuto and once they saw the Fourth come out with his son, they laid down the trap, it was a net, but secretly hidden in the ropes were paper bombs, ready to go off whenever the officers were ready.

"Okay, is the trap laid all over the ground?" Minato asked.

"Yes, Hokage-sama," one of them replied.

"Good." Then looking down at his sleeping, frightened son he narrowed his eyes. "That snake is going to die for what he did."

"We will be all right here, Hokage-sama. Once we catch him, we'll bring him back to Kohona," one officer assured him.

"I don't want to leave you guys, Orochimaru is a sneaky manipulator," Minato answered, hesitating.

"Don't worry, we'll be fine," the other insisted.

Minato nodded, trusting the others. Then he sprinted off to Konoha carrying his badly wounded son. Even though it was Kyuubi's chakra that was extracted, Minato didn't know the extent of the damage that had done to his son. Kyuubi would probably be fine in the long run…but Naruto…he shuddered to think about it. He really didn't want to do it, but he stopped tree hoping at a near-by creek. Laying Naruto on the soft grass, he took an article of cloth out of his bag (he usually brought one for medical purposes) and began wetting it in the creek. When he approachedNaruto again, he started dapping the cloth at Naruto's face to clean off the dirt, sweat and a bloodiedscratch mark.

Minato hadgently started to wash Naruto's neck, when Naruto slowlyopened his eyes. Sure enough he couldn't see anything, but it was...different somehow than before, but he couldn't explain it.

"Hey, Sleepyhead," Minato greeted, alarming Naruto.

"Sleep well? Orochimaru didn't hurt you too badly, did he?" Minato asked now suddenly sounding concerned.

Naruto whimpered and shook his head. Why is he, here? Shouldn't he be with his new family?! Naruto thought angrily.

Kit, you know that's not true-

"SHUT UP, KYUUBI!" Naruto yelled, andthen turning from his father, hid his face in his knees. Minato felt hurt. What was his son doing?

"Naruto? Are you okay?" Minato went to reach out for his son, to comfort him somehow. He started to rub his back, but Naruto swatted his hand away.

"Don't touch me!" Naruto yelled.

"Naruto!" Minato scolded, but felt alarmed. Then he took in a deep breath. He couldn't get angry with Naruto; at least not for long, since he was his only son, his baby.

"Naruto...what's wrong?" Minato probed. "What did Orochi-"

"WHY ARE YOU HERE?!" Naruto shouted in angry confusion, turning towards his father. He could feel tears coming out,and he tried to wipe them away, but they just kept coming until they trickled down his face.

Minato felt confused as well. Had he done something wrong, did he hurt his baby? Or had Orochimaru?

"Why...Why are you here?" Naruto asked again, sobbing. Inwardly, he was glad that his Papa was here. That Orochimaru guy was creepy. But Naruto felt confused by the things he was told. Were they true? Could he trust his Papa? Why was he here now?

"Naruto, I don't understand," Minato told him quietly. "I searched and searched for you until I found you and rescued you. Are you hurt?"

Am I hurt?! Well, screw you! Naruto thought, bitterly. His dad probably didn't even care. It was all for show. His duty as Hokage, no doubt.

Kit, watch the language! Your father's really concerned about you! Kyuubi spoke upon hearing Naruto's mental outburst.

"I said shut up, Kyuubi!" Naruto told the fox angrily.

"What is he telling you?" Minato asked, possessively.

"NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS!" Naruto yelled. He felt so confused! He didn't know what to think anymore!

Minato was taken back, just as he was about to reprimand Naruto on how he shouldn't yell at elders and swear, Naruto screamed:

"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT ANYWAY!" he yelled. Minato was confused now, his eyes widened and he gave a shocked look.

"It's your fault, I'm blind! It's your fault, Kaa-san's dead! It's your entire fault! SO GO BACK TO YOUR "FAMILY" AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" Naruto yelled, his voice hoarseand he let out one final loud cry. Sinking his head into his knees and crying loudly, Minato thought of what Naruto had just said.

My...fault. It's all my fault. Minato thought.

Kit...apologize now!

"No." Naruto stubbornly answered.

"Naruto...what family?" Minato asked seriously, trying not to cry about what his son as just said to him. What did Orochimaru say to him?

"Orochimaru told me...you had another family...another son...you didn't want Kaa-san anymore and you didn't want ..m-me anymore," Naruto sobbed. "That's w-why you weren't…c-coming."

"Naruto, that's not true," Minato spoke softly. "I would never love anyone more than you or Kaa-san. And as for that "replacement" thing, that's a lie. Orochimaru lied to you, Naruto. There wasn't, and never will be another son in my life other than you. Just like my wife, your mother," he told him, sincerely. Going closer to Naruto, until he was sitting next to his son, he took the cloth and started to wipe Naruto's face, which was drenched in tears.

So...all of what I just said now... Naruto thought, with a horrible, guilty feeling. He could feelthe truth of his Papa's words. Papa had never lied to him, well, at least he tried not to. It was always hard when he had go to the doctor and his Papa didn't want him to be scared half to death, but normally, he always told Naruto the truth. Orochimaru had been mean…taken him away from his Papa, lied to him about everything, just to get Kyuubi's Chakra. But Papa had come for him and saved him…oh, now he felt terrible…

Apologize, Kit.

"I'm...I'm sorry Papa~" Naruto sobbed once more. "Oroch'maru, told me those things...and he...said you weren't coming and I...I waited…"Naruto cried more and Minato brought him into a hug, letting Naruto sob into his chest while he stroked his hair and closed his eyes, hoping this was all a nightmare and nothing else.

"I...I waited...for a long, long time! And...and it hurt!" Naruto sobbed.

"I'm sorry I couldn't get there any faster, baby. I'm so sorry, Naruto." Minato couldn't hold it anymore; he let a few tears fall. There was no one around, just him and his son. Even if there were, he'd still cry. Whoever said that grown men don't cry, was obviously lying.

"I'm sorry, for those mean things I said...I don't hate you Papa!" Naruto cried.

Minato smiled at that. Thank God. "I know son,I love you too."

"It...It's not your fault, Kaa-san is gone." Naruto sniffed. "And...not your fault...for me being blind. I-I'm sosorry." Naruto sobbed once more. "I-I was so scared…and you weren't there…so I thought…I thought…"

"Shhh. It's okay, baby. I understand. Say no more. We've had a long night, so why don't you go to sleep, when you wake up, we'll be home and it'll be a new day," Minato insisted, picking up his son gently as he started in a sprinting mode back to Konoha, still having the energy to softly sing to his son while he carried him.

"Oh Minato, your family is broken". Kyuubi stared at the small blonde boy sleeping outside his cage. He took one of his tails and wrapped it around Naruto, warming him. "What to do...He's so protective; I don't think he'll remarry, but Naruto couldn't even handle the thought of a step-mother; it would crush him. And I can't leave this cage to take matters into my own hands, and no way will I be able to convince the Fourth to undo the seal so I can, not after what I did to his village, not like I had a choice though," the fox grumbled to himself.

Kyuubi thought long and hard. What could he do? Then he thought of an idea...Orochimaru HAD taken only a little of his Chakra-Chakra! That's it! He could give Naruto sight. All Naruto had to do was control it. Control, that had it's drawbacks too, Kyuubi knew he didn't like Naruto to "play" with the his Chakra (really, he couldn't blame him,) but he's a child, he's going to becurious one day!

Maybe...maybe tonight will be an exception.

Kyuubi smiled at the sleeping Naruto.

Get ready to freak, Kit. When you wake up, you'll see something wonderful. You'll see life.

Cream was applied to Naruto's irritated eyes, but this caught Naruto off-guardand the pain started to sting his eyes, waking him up, soit took Minato longer than usual to calm Naruto down and apologize for thinking he could apply it while he was sleeping. After the cream, his bandages were applied and wrapped tightly around his head covering his eyes.

"Okay, now swallow," Minato instructed, asNaruto tilted the glass and swallowed all the water which had his smashed up pills. After all of that, he picked up Naruto and carried him to his room. Not Naruto's room, but his. Minato didn't feel all that safe leaving Naruto alone that night, and he wanted to make sure Naruto wouldn't have any nightmares too. *

"Okay, raise your arms." Minato instructed, trying to put a night shirt over Naruto's head.

"Papa...how do you see?" Naruto asked, yawning.

"Another time, Naruto. Right now you're sleepy and it's past bedtime." Minato looked at the clock, it was actually three in the morning.

"Please, Papa?" Naruto asked.

Minato son's pleas were hard to resist. "This counts as your story," he told him playfully. Naruto nodded.

"Well, Naruto how one sees, is your eye works in a similar way to a camera - light passes through the lens of your eye and is 'recorded' on the back of your eye, called the retina. Following me?" Minato asked. Naruto nodded, he understood everything.

"And, did you know that for people who can see, their eyes see it upside down, but the brain flips it, right side up," Minato explained.

"So, everything is upside down?" Naruto asked, amazed.

"No, Naruto, your eyes see it upside down, everything is in it's right place, your eyes see it wrong, but your brain helps the eyes see it the right way. Well, your eye sends the picture to your brain, and your brain turns the picture the right way up and tells you what you are looking at. So you see things the right way up," Minatoclarified.

"Papa...I hear people say someone is beautiful or handsome, am I handsome?" Naruto asked.

"Yes you are, my prince. You're Papa's cute little boy." Minato told him, tucking Naruto into his king sized bed.

"Now, it's late. Well, early...get some sleep, Naruto." I know I won't I'm too paranoid. He gave Naruto one last long hug and a kiss goodnight and made his way to his desk on the other side of his room, for he had work and figured it would be best to get it done before morning. He never noticed the red chakra seeping into his son's eyesthrough his bandages.

Naruto woke much later in the morning than normal, since he'd had such a rough night. He felt something hot on his ear, he turned, and he could feel his Papa breathing on him!

"Ew," Naruto cringed, trying to move away, and then a queasy feeling entered his stomach. He clutched it and moaned. He was thirsty. He slowly slid out of the bed and felt along the walls to his father's bathroom. He found the basket, which had some of his bath toys, including a plastic cup. He wasn't allowed a glass cup (unless supervised) but he knew the plastic cup was okay to drink out of. Feeling the taps of the sink for the cold water he filled the cup.

Taking a drink he sighed in contentment.

Then he scratched at his bandaged eyes and his forehead felt itchy. He groaned and started to undo the bandages. When he did he flinched and squeezed his eyes shut. It was bright, something was bright! Wait...something was bright? He continued to undo his bandages and then taking a deep breath, he opened his eyes. He gasped, taking a look in the mirror. He had crystal blue eyes; they were (in his mind) beautiful. Not only that, he had this cool hair! It was a color he couldn't tell. But he saw his face, his whisker cheeks, and his hands, his face and the rest of his body. He gasped, taking a look around the room. Objects he used everyday, looked so weird, funny and just looked cool. Everything...it was "different."

"PAPA!" Naruto screamed. "Papa! PAPA!"

Minato was up in an instant, grabbing a kunai and racing to the bathroom.

"Naruto, what's wrong?!" He yelled, looking around for imminent danger.

"Pa...pa?" Naruto asked, curiously.

"N-Naruto?!" Minato asked, finally taking in Naruto's eyes: His now clear, blue eyes. He suddenly felt all these emotions; happiness, pride, and even disbelief. He fell to the floor on his knees to Naruto's height and placing a hand on his son's cheek.

Naruto smiled. "Papa! I'm handsome! Just like you!" helaughed.

Minato felt tears roll down his face, and a smile widened.

"Oh, Naruto! My baby, you can see!?" Minato tightly wrapped his arms around Naruto. "How is this possible?"

"I think Kyuubi had something to do with it, Papa," Naruto replied, grinning much like his father did. He could see now how they were so identical.

"I can't believe my baby can see…" Minato mumbled into his son's hair. Tears falling from his eyes.

"Hey! Can't you see? I'm not a baby!" Naruto couldn't help but laugh.

"You'll always be my baby," Minato whispered, too happy to talk. "Thank you...Kyuubi."

NO, THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER!

*Blind children can have nightmares too, really studies show that even though you're blind you remember words spoken (obviously) and some blind children can morph those words and have nightmares.

A/N: Kyuubi as you may have noticed is a tad bit OOC. But that's only towards Naruto. Everyone else other than Naruto he's pretty much a jerk at first.

Thank you to my Beta and co-writer Carrie2sky for anything that I either misspelled or goofed up on. And a big round of cookies being passed out to my reviewers, anyone who put this story on alert or added to their favorites. Thank you all so much.

Until next time this has been Angel and Carrie.